snopes.com: Update #491
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New Articles - Was baseball's championship series named for the New York World newspaper?
- How to send holiday cards to U.S. service members and veterans through the "Holiday Mail for Heroes" program.
- Weather maps with some unusually suggestive shapes.
- Was an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents suppressed for being 'too horrifying'?
- Information about restaurant chains offering free meals to U.S. military personnel in conjunction with Veterans Day.
- Image purportedly used in a 1979 Pakistan airline advertisement shows the shadow of a jetliner on the World Trade Center towers.
- A deceased mother finds a way to tell her son what their last dinner together meant to her.
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Worth a Second Look - Do police have documented cases of poisoned treats being randomly distributed to children on Halloween?
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